MoGorjestani
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As many have painfully learned, the duel adapter is not compatible with OSX 10.6. From what i have gathered the makers of DuelAdapter will not be updating the driver to work with 10.6.
I had lunch today with one of apples leads of tech support in Cupertino who is a friend of a friend who works at apple. I originally just wanted to give him my mac book pro and have him walk me through a revert back to 10.5
Turns out (as many of you know) its a nightmare from the sense that you are basically going to restore your computer to nearly factory settings, aside from some user and network preferences that are recoverable. But you can kiss your applications goodbye. After learning i have to that, i started asking for plan b.
I was told that the main reason DuelAdapter people arent releasing the update for 10.6 is it simply will cost them more money to have someone write the driver update. They probably feel that they will not be selling many more duel adapters (since people who want it already have it and new MCP have no expresscard slot). So financially it makes no sense.
Here were the alternatives (please correct me if im making any mistakes)
1. wipe the system clean and start from install discs for 10.5 (not into that idea)
2. just offload from the camera via firewire (duh..)
3. go S10 notebook and a addonics adapter (read a post about that earlier, really interesting but im not in the mood to spend another 400 bucks right now)
4.wait for a possible driver update (unlikely)
5.wait for panaonics solution coming in spring of '10 (long time sort of..)
6.possible optical usb adapter to read p2 (not for another 2 years or so)
none of these really seem "fair". I mean why shouldn't this darn dueladapter work?? I basically felt like i paid more to end up having a workflow for offloading that doesnt work. The gentleman from apple came up with this idea and suggested i introduce it here on the forum and see where it goes.
He suggested going to www.sourceforge.net which is a basically a place where people can write open source software & drivers. On this site we as a community can start a project looking for help to write an update for 10.6. Here is the catch, it is HIGHLY unlikely anyone would write the driver from scratch. But (and surprisingly i was informed this happens often) we can get the DuelAdapter people to give up the code for the driver so that whoever writes the updated driver can simply pick up from where they left off.
Now the two variables are of course: 1. will duel give up the code? 2. will someone write the driver
perhaps if we found someone to do this and got duel to accept as well we could set up a process where its say $10 dollars to download the driver software. half of it going to duel and the other half to the person who wrote the driver.
Ideally it be great if it was free, which could happen to.
I guess i just wanted to throw that out there and see what everyone thought.
for the heck of it im also going to send feedback (apple.com/feedback) regarding my frustration and perhaps apple can put some pressure on as well.
Sorry for the long post too...
-mo
I had lunch today with one of apples leads of tech support in Cupertino who is a friend of a friend who works at apple. I originally just wanted to give him my mac book pro and have him walk me through a revert back to 10.5
Turns out (as many of you know) its a nightmare from the sense that you are basically going to restore your computer to nearly factory settings, aside from some user and network preferences that are recoverable. But you can kiss your applications goodbye. After learning i have to that, i started asking for plan b.
I was told that the main reason DuelAdapter people arent releasing the update for 10.6 is it simply will cost them more money to have someone write the driver update. They probably feel that they will not be selling many more duel adapters (since people who want it already have it and new MCP have no expresscard slot). So financially it makes no sense.
Here were the alternatives (please correct me if im making any mistakes)
1. wipe the system clean and start from install discs for 10.5 (not into that idea)
2. just offload from the camera via firewire (duh..)
3. go S10 notebook and a addonics adapter (read a post about that earlier, really interesting but im not in the mood to spend another 400 bucks right now)
4.wait for a possible driver update (unlikely)
5.wait for panaonics solution coming in spring of '10 (long time sort of..)
6.possible optical usb adapter to read p2 (not for another 2 years or so)
none of these really seem "fair". I mean why shouldn't this darn dueladapter work?? I basically felt like i paid more to end up having a workflow for offloading that doesnt work. The gentleman from apple came up with this idea and suggested i introduce it here on the forum and see where it goes.
He suggested going to www.sourceforge.net which is a basically a place where people can write open source software & drivers. On this site we as a community can start a project looking for help to write an update for 10.6. Here is the catch, it is HIGHLY unlikely anyone would write the driver from scratch. But (and surprisingly i was informed this happens often) we can get the DuelAdapter people to give up the code for the driver so that whoever writes the updated driver can simply pick up from where they left off.
Now the two variables are of course: 1. will duel give up the code? 2. will someone write the driver
perhaps if we found someone to do this and got duel to accept as well we could set up a process where its say $10 dollars to download the driver software. half of it going to duel and the other half to the person who wrote the driver.
Ideally it be great if it was free, which could happen to.
I guess i just wanted to throw that out there and see what everyone thought.
for the heck of it im also going to send feedback (apple.com/feedback) regarding my frustration and perhaps apple can put some pressure on as well.
Sorry for the long post too...
-mo
